Forgotten History: Musée des Plans-Reliefs ~humanities.history Video 7:32, published Jul 18 2019 8 votes
Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time ~humanities.history Article 4024 words, published Jun 28 2019 9 votes
Varangians - Elite bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors ~humanities.history Video 15:49, published Jun 13 2019 6 votes
The invention that won World War II: Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults ~humanities.history Article 1329 words 6 votes
A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration ~humanities.history Article 1410 words 8 votes
One of the few surviving heroes of D-Day shares his story: Army medic Ray Lambert, now 98, landed with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach ~humanities.history Article 2034 words 9 votes
Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking. ~humanities.history Article 765 words, published May 27 2019 8 votes
The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day: More than two dozen US cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day" ~humanities.history Article 747 words 7 votes
Dinosaur diplomacy: Andrew Carnegie thought fossils could save Europe from World War I ~humanities.history Article 1281 words, published Apr 30 2019 5 votes
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw ~humanities.history Article 1822 words 8 votes
How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost ~humanities.history Article 2505 words 7 votes
Long-lost shipwreck found off Victorian coast, seventy-seven years after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine in WWII ~humanities.history Article 565 words 4 votes
The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution ~humanities.history Article 1852 words 10 votes
M-16: A bureaucratic horror story ~humanities.history Article 8377 words, published Jun 1 1981 8 votes
Revolutionary War fighting ended in 1781. The last shots exploded two months ago. ~humanities.history Article 2156 words 10 votes
Teutoburg Forest 9 AD - Roman-Germanic wars ~humanities.history Video 17:49, published Feb 14 2019 5 votes
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened ~humanities.history Article 608 words 8 votes
One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche. ~humanities.history Article 3827 words 6 votes
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee ~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018 9 votes
Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print ~humanities.languages Link 9 votes
Hidden for seventy years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature—the diary of Renia Spiegel—was rediscovered inside a desk in New York ~humanities.history Article 2975 words 13 votes
The oldest true stories in the world ~humanities.history Article 1798 words, published Oct 18 2018 6 votes
Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing ~humanities.languages Article 2205 words 5 votes
To heil, or not to heil, when traveling in the Third Reich ~humanities.history Article 4343 words 6 votes
Philadelphia threw a WWI parade that gave thousands of onlookers the flu ~humanities.history Article 1709 words 9 votes
A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did ~humanities.history Article 1134 words 6 votes
How the English language became such a mess ~humanities.languages Article 1284 words, published Jun 10 2015 11 votes
After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus ~humanities.history Article 652 words 27 votes
Ottawa to declare federal holiday to mark legacy of residential school system education history Article 815 words 7 votes
The spy who licked me: Inside the CIA’s cat espionage fail ~humanities.history Article 458 words, published Aug 8 2018 7 votes
Since the 1960s, dictionaries have cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. ~humanities.languages Article 2193 words 9 votes